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Bug 1941630

Summary: lots of unmatched cron log entries
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tom Horsley <horsley1953>
Component: logwatchAssignee: Frank Crawford <frank>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tom Horsley 2021-03-22 14:01:40 UTC
Description of problem:
Since my last update I get unmatched cron entries in my logwatch report:

 --------------------- Cron Begin ------------------------ 

 **Unmatched Entries**
 CMDEND (/zooty/ip/update-my-ip)
 CMDEND (/usr/bin/fetchmail -s >> $HOME/.fetchmail.log 2>&1)
 CMDEND (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly/)
...


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
logwatch-7.5.5-1.fc33.noarch
cronie-1.5.6-1.fc33.x86_64


How reproducible:
I'm guessing 100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.setup logwatch
2.observe the mail with all the irritating CMDEND lines
3.

Actual results:
excess blather in logwatch mail

Expected results:
only useful info in logwatch mail

Additional info:

Comment 1 Frank Crawford 2021-03-23 11:15:44 UTC
This appears to be a change in cronie.  Prior to 1.5.6 it did not print CMDEND, but the latest version does.

I will look at a quick fix to suppress it, but a full fix probably won't be available until the next release of logwatch, in about 6 months.

Comment 2 Tom Horsley 2021-03-25 14:18:57 UTC
I just went into /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/cron and added this test immediately after the CMD matching:

      } elsif $ThisLine =~ s/^CMDEND \((.+)\)\s*$/$1/) {
         # ignore

I'll see if it works tomorrow when I get my next logwatch run.

Comment 3 Frank Crawford 2021-03-26 08:00:28 UTC
Tom, thanks.

You can actually get it dropped by adding it to the block of lines ending in a '# Ignore' near the start of the script, and that is likely to be the quick fix.

However, I may also look at if we may report on the data at a later stage.

Comment 4 Frank Crawford 2021-03-29 11:26:53 UTC
*** Bug 1943911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2021-04-06 11:33:31 UTC
FEDORA-2021-7a2e153f33 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 34. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-7a2e153f33

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2021-04-06 11:46:02 UTC
FEDORA-2021-42021ae95f has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-42021ae95f

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2021-04-06 11:55:57 UTC
FEDORA-2021-7a40bc0b7e has been submitted as an update to Fedora 32. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-7a40bc0b7e

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2021-04-07 15:19:57 UTC
FEDORA-2021-42021ae95f has been pushed to the Fedora 33 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-42021ae95f`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-42021ae95f

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2021-04-07 15:58:22 UTC
FEDORA-2021-7a40bc0b7e has been pushed to the Fedora 32 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-7a40bc0b7e`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-7a40bc0b7e

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2021-04-07 18:14:59 UTC
FEDORA-2021-7a2e153f33 has been pushed to the Fedora 34 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-7a2e153f33`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-7a2e153f33

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2021-04-09 15:16:58 UTC
FEDORA-2021-42021ae95f has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2021-04-15 14:53:40 UTC
FEDORA-2021-7a40bc0b7e has been pushed to the Fedora 32 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2021-04-24 19:44:37 UTC
FEDORA-2021-7a2e153f33 has been pushed to the Fedora 34 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2021-04-24 20:05:01 UTC
FEDORA-2021-7a2e153f33 has been pushed to the Fedora 34 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.